Text/ Sun Yanyi (Shandong)
At the foot of Datang Mountain in Changping, Beijing, there is an air force aviation museum that is the largest in Asia and one of the world's few aviation treasures. Since its official opening on November 11, 1989, the museum has attracted people from all walks of life from all over the world with its extraordinary momentum and rich collection, and has been named "Youth Education Base" by the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
In the Air Force Aviation Museum, there is a Y-5 aircraft, which can be described as a precious aviation cultural relic, because it once completed a flight of historical significance, scattering the ashes of Premier Zhou Enlai to the rivers and land of the motherland.
Premier Zhou Enlai died on January 8, 1976, his body was cremated on January 11, and his ashes were temporarily placed in the Cultural Palace of the Working People in Beijing. On the morning of 15 January, at tongxian airport in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, two chiefs of the Air Force of the Central Military Commission, accompanied by several entourage members, came to the conference room of the airport guest house and summoned Xu Conghuan, deputy commander of the second squadron of a large detachment of a certain transport regiment of the Air Force, and tang Xuewen, a pilot, to personally explain to them an important flight mission. A chief said: "On behalf of the State Council and the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, I directly order you the flight mission to sow the ashes of Premier Zhou. Because the mission is so confidential, even your superiors don't know the details of the mission. This is the party's trust in you and a test for you. Then a staff officer laid out the pre-drawn flight route map on the table and explained the route and flight precautions: the take-off place was Tongxian Airport, through the Tanghe estuary, 10 kilometers east of miyun Reservoir, 1049 meters of the mountain, Tianjin, Beizhen (by the Yellow River), and then back to Tongxian Airport to land; the flight altitude was 2000 meters. Speed 180-200 km / h.
The crew members of the aircraft who carried out this mission included Xu Conghuan, the main pilot and deputy squadron leader, Tang Xuewen, the co-pilot and pilot, Bai Haikun, the navigator, and Li Yongshun, the communicator. Chen Baosen, air mechanic and deputy squadron leader of aircraft maintenance. The aircraft used is the Y-5 manufactured in China, the factory number of the aircraft is 1732027, and the unit number of the aircraft is 7225.
At dusk that day, Xu Conghuan crew members boarded Plane 7225 and made a test flight, and the aircraft and the spreading equipment were operating normally. After the test flight, the chief and staff officers accompanied the crew members to wait next to the 7225 aircraft, and never left a step.
At the same time, chinese and foreign journalists waiting at the gate of the Cultural Palace of the Working People always observed the movements in the courtyard with a keen eye. I saw a high-end car, guided by several public security motorcycles, drive out of the gate of the Cultural Palace, pass through Tiananmen Square, and drive west along Chang'an Avenue. Hordes of reporters immediately drove away. Shortly after the high-end sedan went west, the gate of the Palace of Culture opened again, and several old jeeps came out of it, and after exiting the gate, they drove east along Chang'an Avenue. These old jeeps naturally went unnoticed. Who knows, it is these very humble old jeeps that carry out the glorious and arduous task of transporting the ashes of Premier Zhou.
At 19:50, the jeeps arrived at Tong County Airport and drove directly to Plane 7225. In the twilight, 6 people got out of the car, wearing coats and fur hats, and hurried to the plane. The six men, carrying several white cloth pockets about 30 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide, boarded the plane under the escort of the chief. At 20:15, the Y-5 aircraft took off from Tongxian Airport.
At the request of the chief of the plane, Xu Conghuan pulled the sowing handle for the first time and scattered part of the ashes when flying over the Miyun Reservoir at a height of 500 meters; when flying over Tianjin City, he pulled the sowing handle for the second time, scattering the ashes in the place where Premier Zhou studied and engaged in revolutionary activities in his youth; in Beizhen, along the Yellow River, he pulled the sowing handle for the third time and spread the ashes on the fertile soil of the Yellow River, the cradle of the Chinese nation. At this point, the task of scattering ashes is completed.
At 0:45 on January 16, the plane landed safely at Tongxian Airport, flying for 4 and a half hours.
In that special period, for safety reasons, the process of sowing the ashes of Premier Zhou did not leave any words and photos, only the domestically produced Y-5 aircraft that took on this sacred mission, leaving people with endless thoughts.
Dear Premier Zhou, you will always live in people's hearts!
"Wood stone" quiz
Text/Sun Yanyi
According to the "Tengzhou Civil Affairs Chronicle", the government station of Mushi Town originally had three natural villages of Ruanzhuang, Huqiao and Huazhuang, and by the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1460-1552), the three villages had been connected into one, and because of the side of the Muyi Pavilion, the three villages were collectively called Muyi Pavilion. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when it was renamed Mushi, it was later called Mushi. After reading it, I am a little puzzled by the name of "wood stone", that is, why do you call this place "wood stone"?
The dictionary says that "wood and stone" are trees and stones, figuratively something without perception and emotion: wood and stone heart (metaphor for a hard heart, not moved by emotions). It can be seen that "wood stone" is not a good word!
Ci Haili said that "wooden man stone heart" is an idiom, figuratively determined, not moved by external objects (fame and fortune and other temptations). It comes from the "Book of Jin and Xia Tong Biography": there was a famous scholar in the Jin Dynasty named Xia Tong, who was versatile and eloquent, and very famous. At that time, many people persuaded him to come out and become an official, but he refused. Once, when he came to the capital Luoyang, the lieutenant Jia Chong wanted to use his talents and fame to increase his power, so he persuaded him to come to his side to take up a post, but he politely refused to admit it. Jia Chong was not willing, so he racked his brains to seduce him with official positions, female sex, etc., but Xia Tong was unmoved. Therefore, Jia Chong said incomprehensibly: "There are such strange people in the world!" It's like a man made of wood and a heart made of stone! If "wooden stone" means "wooden stone heart", this is still a good word!
Flipping through the "Mozi Research Series (Ten)" found that Mr. Zhang Zhihan found the answer to the question of Mozi's Chinese nationality from the exhortation, he thought that "... The famous wooden stone person at the head of the mountain is also suspected of being the blackmail of Mutai (目夷). Mr. Yang Xiangkui examined the relationship between Mo Zhai and Mu Yi through sound training, he said: "Mu Yi is also Mo Yi, and the ancient sounds of 'Zhai' and 'Yi' can be false, so I am quite suspicious of the other writing of 'Mo Zhai' or 'Mu Yi'. From this point of view, Mushi is also the name of Mozi. I think that it is not "blackmail", but the honorific title of Mozi by later generations, that is, Mozi is also like Xia Unification, but also the person of "wooden people and stone hearts".
Isn't that the case? Mozi advocated equal love (both love) and opposed wars of aggression (non-aggression), and his ideas of "non-pleasure", "thrifty use", and "funeral" were protests against the "decoration and pleasure" of the powerful nobles and the extravagant hedonistic life, and put forward the political propositions of "Shangxian" and "Shangtong", holding that "officials are impermanent and noble, and the people have no ultimate inferiority". Mozi has the practical spirit of "putting the heel on the top of the heel and benefiting the world", and the story of "stopping Chu and attacking the Song" is the most typical example. Even now, there will be a lot of resistance to doing this, let alone at that time? In today's terms, if Mozi did not have the spirit of "stupidity" and "foolishness", it would be difficult to separate himself from Confucianism and make such achievements as "Xianxue" along with Confucianism.
Mozi - "wooden man stone heart", you live up to the name also.
Note: The image comes from the Internet